# All Down Darkness Wide

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- Authors: [Seán Hewitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/sean-hewitt)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2911-447-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2023-08-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal, and a fearless exploration of a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.